ICAR

Sheep, Goats and Camelids Working Group

The Working Group was endorsed at the 40th ICAR Biennial Session held in Puerto Varas and it is the result of the merging of three previous Working Groups (Performance Recording of Dairy Sheep WG + Goat Performance Recording WG + Animal Fibre WG).

In 2018, following a decision of the Board, the Working Group was enlarged to include Large Camelids (Dromedaries and Bactrian Camels). The new Terms of Reference for the newly-named “ICAR Sheep, Goat and Camelid Working Group” are available here

This page shows introductory information about the Sheep, Goats and Camelids Working Group (in short SGC WG) , the composition of the Working Group and documents related to the carried out activities.

Chairperson

• Jean-Michel Astruc , Institut de l’Elevage (IDELE), France

Members

• Hassan Alhaddad, of Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait
• Marco Antonini, ENEA, Italy
• Daniel Brown, Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, Australia
• Pamela Burger, Financial Department Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria
• Antonello Carta, AGRIS Sardegna, Italy
• Elena Ciani, Department of General and Environmental Physiology, Italy
• Joanne Conington, Animal & Veterinary Sciences, SRUC, United Kingdom
• Carlo Iglesias Pastrana, University of Córdoba, Spain
• Valerie Loywyck, IDELE, France
• Kevin McDermott, Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, Ireland
• Sharon McIntyre, Beef and Lamb NZ Genetcis, New Zealand
• Riccardo Negrini, AIA, Italy
• Mojca Simčič , University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Marija Spehar, Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food, Croatia
• Eva Ugarte, NEIKER, Spain

Guidelines and survey

The SGC WG has created three Expert Advisory Groups (EAG) to provide specialist and expert advice on topics of relevance to achieving the objectives of the Group:

• EAG on sheep and goat milk recording
• EAG on sheep, goat and camelid fiber recording
• EAG on sheep and goat meat, reproduction and maternal traits recording
• EAG on large camelid recording

The SGC-WG maintains, updates, promotes and extends the following section of the guidelines:

• Section 14: Alpaca and Goat identification and fibre
• Section 16: Dairy sheep and gotas
• Section 21 – Meat, reproduction and maternal traits in sheep and goats

The SGC WG is currently working on establishing a section of the guidelines on meat, reproduction and maternal traits recording

Also, the SGC WG conducts and reports the results of the international survey on sheep and goats performance recording

Documents related to the Working Group

For this Working Group, the following documents are available:

• Terms of Reference
• Pictorial summary of the organization of the group and the members

Documents produced during the ICAR Conferences

Montreal 2022

• Minutes SGC WG meeting held in Montréal on 31 May 2022
• Slides presented during the SGC WG meeting held in Montréal on 31 May 2022

Remote meeting by Zoom on February 2022

• Minutes SGC WG meeting held by Zoom on 16 February 2022
• Presented slides by J.-M. Astruc
• Presented slides by M. Spehar
• Document by M. Antonini

Leeuwarden 2021

• Minutes SGC WG meeting held on 30 April 2021
• Slides presented during the SGC WG meeting held on 30 April 2021

Prague 2019

• Minutes SGC WG meeting held in Prague on 18 June 2019
• Presented slides by Burger
• Presented slides by J. Conington
• Presented slides by J.-M. Astruc (Main conclusions)

Auckland 2018

• Agenda of the ICAR SGC WG meeting held in Auckland on 9 February 2018
• Minutes ICAR SGC WG meeting held in Auckland on 9 February 2018
• Meat Trait Recording By Daniel Brown
• Sheep and Goats: Meat And Wool International Survey By Joanne Conington

Edinburgh 2017

• Slides presented at the meeting of the WG in Edinburgh …” of the meeting of the WG in Edinburgh on 12th June 2017
• Minutes of the meeting of the WG in Edinburgh on 12th June 2017
• WG meeting held in Edinburgh: Presentation by Zdravko Barac on the “Report on the survey on goat meat recording”
• WG meeting Edinburgh: Presentation by Joanne Conington on “Meat sheep (?+goats?) performance recording guidelines“

Puerto Varas 2016 (Chile)

• Meeting of the WG in Puerto Varas on 25th October 2016 (Minutes – Slides)